Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | 11 September 2004 At 8:30am yesterday, the newsreader on Pacifica Radio’s Morning Show told us of Shaul Mofaz’s latest announcement that “Israel has locked down the West Bank and Gaza Strip until the Jewish holiday season ends in October…from fears of Palestinian attacks.” (Direct quotation). But what

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DR REV STEPHEN SIZER | Preteristcentral.com | 2001 Dr Rev. Stephen Sizer is a Vicar at Christ Church, Virginia Water and an area Tutor at the School of Theology, Westminster College Oxford. He holds several positions of a trustee and is renowned for his lectures on Christian Zionism. He besides having numerous articles published

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brian Whitaker | The Guardian | 6 August 2004 A Jewish youth organisation has asked to be removed from the register of charities after complaints that it backed Robert Kilroy-Silk’s views on Arabs. Brit Trumpeldor of Great Britain – known as Betar – was registered 20 years ago “to educate Jewish youth in good

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Arab Media Network | 31 July 2004 This is a TV series about Russia . But it could have been about Israel . Or about the United States . It is entitled “The Oligarchs” and is now being screened on Israeli television. Some of its episodes are simply unbelievable – or

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Guardian Leader | The Guardian | 22 July 2004 Once again Israel has vowed to flout a United Nations resolution and once again America will let it. In voting against the general assembly’s resolution demanding that Israel obey a World Court ruling to dismantle the wall it is building through the West Bank, the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jane Lampman | The Christian Science Monitor | 7 July 2004 Christian Zionists are growing in influence – even as they fight for policies their critics say work against peace in the Mideast. For these believers, it’s all about fulfilling biblical prophecy. JERUSALEM – Ray Sanders and his wife, Sharon, grew up on farms

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Hirst | The Guardian | 17 July 2004 Camp David failed because Israeli hardliners manipulated intelligence. In his memoirs, the former US president Bill Clinton writes that the Camp David summit, of which this month marks the fourth anniversary, was the greatest failure of his career. And that, he says, was overwhelmingly Yasser

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oren Medicks | Redress | 7 July 2002 “The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends, the anti-Semite nations will become our allies.” (The Diary of Theodor Herzl) ———– As an Israeli peace activist, I believe that Israel’s future depends on our ability to promote a just and lasting peace with our neighbours, primarily

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters | 3 July 2004 LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. general who was in charge of Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison said on Saturday she had met an Israeli interrogator in Iraq, a controversial allegation likely to irritate many in the Arab world. A U.S. military spokesman in Washington said he had no information

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Seymour Hersh | The New Yorker | 20 June 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS: Perri Dorset, Director, Public Relations (212) 286-5898 Daniel Kile, Publicist (212) 286-5996 http://www.newyorker.com/press/content/ Current and former intelligence officials in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe confirm that “Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work